William S. Burroughs’ ability to survive hell and reach the age of 80 is so strange that some ... William S. Burroughs is a poet and a prophet as well as a criminal.

William S. Burroughs was a counterculture icon: ... but had no intention of writing until he met 17-year-old poet Allen Ginsberg and 21-year-old novelist Jack Kerouac.

A personal, undated photo of William Burroughs and Joan Vollmer with their newborn Bill Jr, taken by friend and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg [Courtesy of the Ginsberg Estate] ...

The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella ...

William S. Burroughs was an American artist who was born in 1914. His work is currently being shown at Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Ft. Myers. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Almine Rech, ...

In ’93, Nirvana’s tour manager Alex MacLeod drove Cobain over to meet Burroughs in Kansas around the start of Nirvana‘s In Utero tour. “Meeting William was a real big deal for him,” said ...

A curator and confidant of the late William S Burroughs has said the writer and artist “broke down sobbing” when recalling the death of his partner. In 1951, Burroughs shot dead his common-law ...

The swan-song symbolism of this final moment of a love unrealized, as outlandishly dreamy as it may seem, actually draws on William S. Burroughs' own story, and how he unintentionally murdered his ...

Luca Guadagnino understands the poetry of human bodies in motion, ... William S. Burroughs was one of the principal figures associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s and 60s.

AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. If algorithms are getting good at writing poetry, it’s partially because poetry was always an algorithmic business.

The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer The renowned author murdered his wife before going on to become one of America’s most influential figures in literature.